All Covid-19 measures are permanent, don't be a boiling frog!

Basically wanting an echo chamber.

Why are you shocked? Most people want the numbers of people dying and suffering due to covid to be reduced. Why wouldn't they be in favour of restrictions being extended to do this?

Why did we not have restrictions to prevent flu deaths, should we keep the restrictions forever to prevent flu deaths or are you okay with flu deaths? At what mortality rate do you think restrictions should be implemented for any contagious disease? Should we implement restrictions for everything with a mortality rate above say 0.1%? What's your number?

Are you claiming that the restrictions aren't going to do this?

Restrictions will reduce covid deaths to some extent, just like banning cars will limit road deaths, banning cigarettes will limit lung cancer deaths and the list goes on and on. If society's sole focus is preventing deaths the world becomes a very sad boring place.

Also what do you by "Pushing a narrative?" Who is pushing this narrative any why?

The governments and the media. The Governments got new powers and blank cheques, and the opportunity to inflate away some debt and buy some votes, the media make money by selling fear, covid is just the latest boogeyman, but it's a good one, people are still watching to see the latest case numbers for covid despite extremely low deaths, far fewer deaths than cancer, but cancer just isn't sexy enough to attract viewer/readers with case and death figures.

Also which measures will be permanent and how do they benefit the people behind the conspiracy?

I can't say I have much conviction behind this, as it's just off the top of my head, but I'll answer since the the question is there, and because you're point seems to be that there is no possible reasons. Governments are in debt that can't be repaid, they now know that people will be terrified of any virus, even a bad flu season or the prediction of one could be enough to lockdown the country and start up the printing presses and generate the the inflation the central banks and Governments have been openly trying to create for years now without success. Now every little virus that pops its head up could trigger restrictions. Restrictions may not be permanent in the sense that they get never get lifted, but they are permanent in the sense that they will be back, and will forever be hanging over our heads.

I understand Covid is more contagious, and currently more deadly than the flu. I never claimed it wasn't.

To address each of your paragraphs:

Covid was a new disease, spreading rapidly throughout the world, threatening to overwhelm national health systems, with a relatively higher death rate than most widespread infectious respiratory diseases. We didn't know much about it when it emerged (we are still learning about the long term effects), we didn't have vaccines. In contrast, seasonal flu was milder, something we were familiar with, something we had vaccines for, and wasn't threatening any countries on a national level.

Restrictions are common sense measures to mitigate and reduce the spread of the virus. The more severe the spread in a country, the more widespread the measures to protect the healthcare system and to reduce deaths overall

In the real world the "Governments and media" don't work neatly together, outlets in many countries are typically competitive with each other and regularly criticise/savage the establishment, along with the opposition parties.

National debt is not like personal debt, it's actually essential for the functioning of a modern economy, most countries don't have any issue servicing their nat. debts, and in rare cases if a payment can't be made, then they can default (e.g. Argentina). Also countries like Norway, which can easily repay it's national debt with a sovereign fund (at any time) have used restrictions, like everyone else, so your conspiracy idea makes little or no sense.

You implied that anybody who doesn't want restrictions extended doesn't care about people dying and suffering from covid. I don't think that's a fair implication. I'm just curious if you're in favour of extending any restriction which could prevent dying and suffering from any virus, if masks and social distancing will prevent flu or other respiratory virus deaths, do you think they should be permanent even after covid, to prevent the dying and suffering from them? I'm fully aware significantly less people die of flu, but people do die from it and we can't tell the bad years until its too late. We didn't have restrictions in place before covid, so presumably there is an acceptable rate of death from respiratory viruses according to doctors and governments, I'd like to know where the bar is. You say you care about flu deaths, so presumably you won't ever want restrictions lifted, or are some deaths acceptable as long as the health service isn't overwhelmed?

I'm not necessarily against lockdowns or masks, I was one of the first people wearing masks when this all kicked off, getting looked at like I was mental in shopping centers, and I fully supported the first two weeks lockdown. But in my opinion at some point there was a disconnect between the data and the measures being implemented, because hysteria kicked in. Decisions about all aspects of the lives of the entire country were being made by a group of people who's sole job was to focus on one thing, doctors will focus on health, that's all they know, health is great but there's a reason the country wasn't ran but doctors before this. I'm all for good teeth too, but I don't want the country being run by dentists.

Every time I get into a discussion with you think everything is a conspiracy, I think it's your favorite word, I'd be interested to know your definition, it seems like if somebody thinks differently to you they must be conspiracy theorists. If a story sells, the media will push it, that's not a conspiracy, that's just business, the media's job is to find the boogeyman be it the Terrorists, Trump, the Russians, The Russians and Trump together, now Covid, it doesn't matter, fear sells, so that's what they have to generate. I'm not saying Covid isn't a threat, I'm saying the threat is exaggerated, and people are so hysterical about it that they are applying a logic to anything covid related, which runs counter to their logic about all other risks in life.

I don't know if any measures will be permanent, because I think more than likely governments will revert back to accepting that a certain death rate is acceptable from viruses. But who knows, they might apply your logic and say getting rid of masks means you don't care about people who die from Pneumonia, and if you stick a catchy label on people who disagree, anti-maskers maybe, most people will fall in line.